New home

We managed to get all moved last week with the help of a small army of helpers - friends from here in Te Anau. Made us realise what a great community we live in - people we know, but don't really count as close friends, all pitching in to help in some way.

Gethin came over from Dunedin and was a huge help.

The new house is a bit smaller than the old one, with no garage (well, it does have a garage that has the steel framing up, but nothing else!) Storing all our "Stuff" is a bit of an issue.

There's a small outside shed, that Sam Huntington (who's an apprentice builder) spent many hours in, sorting out, putting up shelving, securing my workbench and vice, and basically making it into a usable shed. He even made a Heath-Robinson door.

The sun is out today, so it's time to start trying to sort out everything; we got finally moved in on Monday (public holiday) and Nicky and I have both been at work all week - yes I go to work now. Internet coverage here in the 'sticks' is pretty poor (good enough for email & general browsing - just) so I'm renting a little office in town. I've found it very good this week. It's far less distracting than working from home.

Just a couple of poor photo's to give you an idea of our views. The one into the sun is looking NE and the other SW.

This is where we are:

Google Map Bing Map (better aerial imagery)

I'll get some more photo's up soon